Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

11.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

12.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

14.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

17.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

18.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

19.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

20.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

25.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

26.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

40.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean